So my shiny macbook pro that I was promised with the new job turned into a battered R50e Thinkpad. Ho Hum. Still at least it has built in wireless.... hmmm. maybe not. Enter a Cheap n Cheerful Edimax EW-7108PCg PCMCIA card. Works fine under linux including kismet using ra0 - it's the rt2500 chipset driver.
However I'd like to make use of a decent external antenna for better range, so opened it up and discovered the antenna consisted of 2* 18mm tracks with no obvious points to solder in a pigtail.
Garden Irrigation, Pt 1
Some more background to my 'home assistant powered irrigation system' -- I'll write up a couple more articles as build progresse...
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At home we have a small (2.5KW - 10*250w panels) PV system to try and offset our daytime electricity usage. This is connected to a 'Grow... -
At home I have a Fine Offset ( this one branded by Jaycar) weather station that publishes to weather.two-fifteen.com via weewx (this is mu... -
As you may have noticed, I'm quite fond of Grafana and use it at home and work. One of the dashboards I have at work is the general sta...
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